Chronicle of the murdered house / / Lúcio Cardoso ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson ; biographical note by Benjamin Moser
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Cardoso Lúcio <1913-1968, >
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| Titolo: |
Chronicle of the murdered house / / Lúcio Cardoso ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson ; biographical note by Benjamin Moser
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| Pubblicazione: | Rochester, NY : , : Open Letter, , 2016 |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (625 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 869.3/42 |
| Soggetto topico: | Families - Brazil - Minas Gerais |
| Gay men - Brazil - Minas Gerais | |
| Classificazione: | FIC019000FIC004000FIC011000HIS033000 |
| Persona (resp. second.): | MoserBenjamin |
| CostaMargaret Jull | |
| PattersonRobin | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "The book itself is strange-part Faulknerian meditation on the perversities, including sexual, of degenerate country folk; part Dostoevskian examination of good and evil and God-but in its strangeness lies its rare power, and in the sincerity and seriousness with which the essential questions are posed lies its greatness."--Benjamin Moser, from the introduction. Long considered one of the most important works of twentieth-century Brazilian literature, Chronicle of the Murdered House is finally available in English. Set in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, the novel relates the dissolution of a once proud patriarchal family now represented by Timoteo, a gay scion who wanders the ancestral mansion dressed in his mother's clothes. This downfall, peppered by stories of decadence, adultery, incest, and madness, is related through a variety of narrative devices, including letters, diaries, memoirs, statements, confessions, and accounts penned by the various characters. Lúcio Cardoso (1912-1968) turned away from the social realism fashionable in 1930s Brazil and opened the doors of Brazilian literature to introspective works such as those of Clarice Lispector-his greatest follower and admirer."-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Chronicle of the murdered house |
| ISBN: | 1-940953-51-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910136639903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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